in 1976 - A magnitude 7.9 earthquake strikes off the coast of Mindanao, Philippines, causing a destructive tsunami that kills between 5,000 and 8,000 people and displaced more than 90,000 people.
The 1976 Moro Gulf earthquake and tsunami occurred on August 17, 1976, at 00:11 local time near the Philippine islands of Mindanao and Sulu. On the moment magnitude scale, its magnitude was calculated to be as high as 8.0. It was the deadliest and most powerful earthquake to strike the Philippines in 58 years, since the Celebes Sea earthquake in 1918.
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